Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872-1947)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS 807
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Barcroft, Sir Joseph (1872-1947)
Date(s)	: 1921-1922
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Barcroft | Sir | Joseph | 1872-1947 | Knight | physiologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1872; educated King's College, Cambridge, 1893-1897; research at Cambridge Physiological Laboratory, 1897-; lecturer at King's College, Cambridge, 1899; junior demonstrator in the physiological laboratory, 1904; senior demonstrator, 1907; fellow of the Royal Society, 1910; assistant tutor King's College, Cambridge, 1910; expedition to Tenerife, 1910; expedition to Monte Rosa, 1911; CBE, 1918; reader King's College, Cambridge, 1919; high-altitude expedition to Cerro de Pasco in Peru, in order to study pulmonary gas exchange, blood biochemistry, and several other topics, 1921-1922; professor of physiology at Cambridge, 1925; Copley medal of the Royal Society, 1943; died, 1947.

Publications: The Respiratory Function of the Blood (1914, 2nd edition, 1925).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters from the Peruvian Andes, 1921-1922, by Sir Joseph Barcroft.

Access & Use

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English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009.